He Played First With His Batby Dan TaylorThe first time I saw Nick Etten's picture remains a fond memory of childhood. Red bottomed 1943 stamp with washed out colors of him gracefully posed in lordly Yankee pinstripes, with bat a pulsing extension of his being. That year his twenty two homers were league high; with Oakland's Oaks he scalded 43. Fielding, Nick seemed more at home in a baggy Phillie uniform that looked as if it came with flapping shoes and squirting flower. One day with the Yanks in between innings he laid his glove in foul ground near the bag and (MAN CLAWS CAT) a candy wrapper flew into it. Next day Joe Trimble wrote, "Etten's glove fields better without Etten". Dan Taylor 4/23/02 Leave feedback on our message board. |